[SJSAMPLE]

We don’t need a Conservative echo chamber. We need a rightful place at the table of ALL ideas.

[Rennes Templar]

Facebook needs competiton.

[brownsfan]

“We don’t need a Conservative echo chamber. We need a rightful place at the table of ALL ideas.”

Agreed. My first thought is not a conservative Facebook, (I doubt that would prosper), but a FAIR Facebook.

[madison10]

The thing is the tables where all ideas should be spread are privately owned by radical leftists. We need one OWNED by conservatives, but where the left, within rules, can say what they think as you said. Otherwise we become them, and that would be awful. FR is sort of like that, but we scorn the left.

I really hate the trash talking of the President on twitter, but conservatives are silenced for no logical reason. I cannot get the good comments through.

[Drew68]

We don’t need a Conservative echo chamber. We need a rightful place at the table of ALL ideas.

Thank you.

I'm always troubled by people who think it's a great idea for conservatives to segregate themselves to lonely internet wastelands where they preach to the choir while liberals are invited to freely use Facebook and Twitter to get their message out to hundreds of millions.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[We don’t need a Conservative echo chamber. We need a rightful place at the table of ALL ideas.]

Hear hear!!! Who would we be able to troll and make fun of on an all-conservative platform??

[jpl]

We don’t need a Conservative echo chamber. We need a rightful place at the table of ALL ideas.

True, but apparently there's no chance of that happening because the left has discovered they can't win in a fair, honest, and open debate of all sides. That's why they're out to silence us entirely.

[Gene Eric]

Agreed regarding an open forum.

The “conservative alternatives” often fail to launch.

We also have FR to filter out the noise.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

We don’t need a Conservative echo chamber. We need a rightful place at the table of ALL ideas.

The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.

- Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

You can, if you wish, think of FR as "a Conservative echo chamber.” But then, if you depart from it what you will miss is the pooling of our (individually inadequate) “incredulity.” And since it is inherently socialist propaganda, “objective journalism” needs a lot of incredulity.

"Conservative echo chamber” is LiberalSpeak for any venue which does not suppress anti-socialist ideas.

sophist

1542, earlier sophister (c.1380), from L. sophista, sophistes, from Gk. sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," from sophos "wise, clever," of unknown origin. Gk. sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.

philosopher

O.E. philosophe, from L. philosophus, from Gk. philosophos "philosopher," lit. "lover of wisdom," from philos "loving" + sophos "wise, a sage."

"Pythagoras was the first who called himself philosophos, instead of sophos, 'wise man,' since this latter term was suggestive of immodesty." [Klein]

“Liberalism” is naiveté towards government, “justified” by cynicism towards society. But cynicism is not “extreme skepticism” so much as it is naiveté towards the opposite of whatever you are cynical about.